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Enterprise technology's juxtaposition, complementarity and application

The ability to see within an enterprise with operations requiring various technologies in information, communication, operational, security and compliance, or two or more of these, finds stakeholders, or the need to adjust techniques and make, some ingenious ways to be more effective in their responsibilities and deliverables or production. Enterprise technology is not an area and language to be used where there are only some specializations involved but which still within the confines of information technology. IT may have been serving utility operations or energy generation for sometime already and yet stakeholders cannot see how to work hand-in-hand to increase their own efficiency, and the output for which customers are very dependent. There are efforts but they remain completely separate and the result is the bigger realizations and concerns about costs rather than creation of value from the start, not just when profits began to come in. If IT is not clearly use in such environmen

Super privilege accounts, an IT double bind

IT organization must be able to demonstrate that even Windows administrator and Unix root and related super privilege accounts can be controlled. It must be emphasized very strongly that it is inviolable to business to make mistake induced by IT in a surprising manner. Inadvertent use and access to these accounts can be devastating to business and its reputation to stakeholders. Meaning all systems are being used by everyone, authorized, without the IT people having to look, tinker and update configuration from time to time. Everything is final in the production systems except for regular software including firmware updates that must be applied, still they must be approved first. Though there are chokepoints (software are released but will require regular update, and stability, if any, is achieved that way only) where a system malfunctions, they are only temporary and can be fixed easily by focusing on an affected account or process. They don’t impact business system or whole IT operat